This blog covers topics around programming in various languages, for the industry. It includes my insights based on commercial experience from various projects I worked on. I hope it will provide a simple way of doing complex tasks related to programming, as well as an overview of what's going on in software nowadays.

So the first step is to download all dependencies. I will use MinGW, MinGW GCC, jcgo-lib-1_14.tar.gz, jcgo-src-1_14.tar.bz2, classpath-0.93 (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.93.tar.gz) and Java sources for the app with dependent libraries: https://github.com/rafalrusin/netcat, commons cli 1.2 (http://commons.apache.org/cli/download_cli.cgi). You need to put all this in the same directory, so it'll have structure like this:

I like the approach of translating Java code into C, because compared to other tools, which generate C++ code, this is more suitable for embedded devices. For example it is possible to generate code for iOS, because Objective C is a superset of C.

One feature I would like to see though is to be able to use reference counting instead of full gc. This is because one of the advantages of C over Java is that it doesn't have GC hangs. So then the programmer would have to make sure there's no cycles in orphaned object structure.

Update: Ivan Maidansky, an author of JCGO, has put some interesting comments regarding this article. In particular, he is aware of some apps in Apple Store, which do this kind of translation. Also, reference counting is discouraged due to multithreading issues. These comments can be found here: https://github.com/ivmai/JCGO/issues/2